let me first of point out... i love long hair... especially if its on my wife.... during my last cleaning episode.. something started to smoke on the vacuum... no big deal.. unplug and figure it out later... did you know there are ball bearings inside the roller brush... i didn't either till i cleaned all the hair out from everything.... just on the brush alone it was 1/4 inch thick and i thought the see through window on top was too scratched to see through any more... ha ha ha... it was hair hiding the neon green bristles....
i think my wife is shedding... or at least I'm driving her crazy and her hair is falling out..
so let this be a warning to all men that have wives with long hair... don't wait to clean the brush down to the ball bearings... it takes about 2 hours... and if the pets are shedding too... clean it more often.. ugh... no wonder the vacuum guy charges so much...
sorry if this is boring for ya... but it was quite traumatic for me..